Minecraft 1.13.1 released boosting performance

The much anticipated release of Minecraft 1.13.1 was finally released today. The laundry list of bugs addressed in this point release is massive (see below) and hopefully addresses many players concerns that the 1.13 release itself wasn’t quite complete.

Arguably the most important improvement to the game as of this release though is performance. Multiple improvements to the game have supposedly been made affecting everything from fluid handling through chunk loading to mob spawning. The release is hot off the press at the time of this post, so in depth testing still remains; but initial reports from the community are positive.

We’ll update this post a little later once we’ve seen the impact of the release ourselves – especially on SMP servers, vanilla in particular – where performance and tick rate has been affected significantly in the 1.12 – > 1.13 update. Hopefully 1.13.1 performance will return to that previously seen in 1.12.2.

MC-119607 – Llamas, unlike horses, can be kept feeding hay bales even if in love mode

MC-119856 – Slime blocks missing cullface argument

MC-119971 – Various duplications, deletions, and data corruption at chunk boundaries, caused by loading outdated chunks — includes duping and
deletion of entities/mobs, items in hoppers, and blocks moved by pistons, among other problems